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One of the most prominent theologians in the late 20th and early 21st centuries was William J. Abraham. This book seeks to begin a critical assessment and appreciation of his…
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William J. Abraham
In the wake of 9/11 much has been written on terrorism. Some have examined the potential relation between religion and terrorism, few, if any, have studied the relation between theology…
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In his day, John Wesley offered important insights on how to obtain knowledge of God that readily bears fruit in our own times. As premiere Wesleyan scholar William Abraham shows…
The last few decades have seen a revolution in debates about the rationality of Christian belief. This work argues that epistemology must begin with its particular target of inquiry. It…
Wesley for Armchair Theologians engagingly presents the life and theology of John Wesley, the founder of Methodism. Written by prominent Wesley scholar William Abraham, who aimed to make Wesley come…
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A narrative on the significance of canon in the Christian tradition. Abraham shows that the move to treat canon as a criterion of truth has had unsuspecting consequences for the…
Provides a narrative on the significance of canon in the Christian tradition. Standard accounts of canon reduce it to scripture and treat scripture as a criterion of truth. The author…
Discusses conversion, baptism, morality, and the Holy Spirit and argues that evangelism is an initiation into the kingdom of God.
The Logic of Renewal offers an analysis of the many proposals for church renewal that have surfaced over the last fifty years. William Abraham, one of America’s finest religious thinkers…
La evangelizacion debe ajustarse a la vida de la iglesia local. Implica discipulado integral. No se trata solo de ganar personas para Cristo sino tambien de entrar en un proceso…
Asserting that the return to Wesley that is represented in the Quadrilateral is intellectually wrongheaded, William J. Abraham argues that the Quadrilateral is not, and should not be, United Methodist…
In this volume honoring William J. Abraham, noted theologians, philosophers, and historians offer erudite analysis of various aspects of the faith - Scripture, conversion, initiation, liturgy, confession, reconciliation, and more…
William J Abraham (Southern Methodist University)
Everybody knows that mainline Christianity in the West is on the skids. This book explains why. Using the Methodist church as a case study, Abraham shows the fatal policy decisions…
All sides agree that the United Methodist Church is at a crisis-point. Disputes that have persisted like a low grade fever across decades have intensified to a point where the…
William J Abraham
How can we hold fast to the hope of life eternal when we lose someone we love? In this book William Abraham reflects on the nature of certainty and the…
Ermal Kirby
In Glimpses of Holiness, Ermal Kirby introduces us to a selection of the ordinary people he imagines gathering in the home of Philemon and Apphia in Colossae to hear, for…
John Wesley
Walk the road to perfection with John Wesley.
*Walk the road to perfection with John Wesley*
John Wesley designated 44 sermons as one of the doctrinal standards for the Methodist people. Volume 1 includes 15 of these sermons…
Michael J Gehring
In The Oxbridge Evangelist: Motivations, Practices, and Legacy of C. S. Lewis, Michael Gehring examines the evangelistic practices of one of the most significant lay evangelists of the twentieth century…
Stephen J Lennox
America in the late nineteenth century was undergoing enormous societal shifts. Immigration and urbanization were changing the face of the country. New discoveries and new perspectives on old verities stretched…
Craig S. Bartholomew
Bartholomew merges his interests in philosophy and Old Testament studies by exploring what it means to recognize God’s voice in the Biblical text and recognize that God actually acts within…
This landmark handbook maps the best current scholarship in the rapidly developing field of Methodist Studies. The forty-two included essays are representative of the voices of a new generation of…
It considers the epistemology of theology and features 42 chapters, divided into 4 sections on ‘Theology Relative Epistemic Concepts’ and ‘General Epistemic Concepts as Related to Theology’, and on studies…
This handbook considers the epistemology of theology, featuring 41 chapters on theology relative epistemic concepts and general epistemic concepts as related to theology, and on studies of individual theologians from…
Elaine A Heath
Now and then through the history of the church a great light appears, a prophet who calls the church back to its missional vocation. These reformers are lovers of God…
William J Johnson
Lincoln, the LawyerLincoln, the CitizenLincoln, the Story-TellerLincoln, the StatesmanLincoln, the Friend of Man and other phrases of this remarkable character, have received special treatment at the…
William J. Abraham (Albert Cook Outler Professor of Wesley Studies, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University)
This study lays the groundwork for a constructive contribution to the contemporary debate regarding divine action. It charts the history of debate about divine action among key Anglophone philosophers of…
This volume argues that in order to understand divine action, one must begin with the array of specific actions predicated of God in the Christian tradition.
Methodism began as renewal movement within Anglicanism in the eighteenth century, dominated the Protestant landscape of the USA in the nineteenth, and continues to be one of the most vibrant…
Andrew G Walker
Andrew Walker is one of the most remarkable scholars I have met across the years.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
William J. Abraham (Albert Cook Outler Professor of Wesley Studies, Albert Cook Outler Professor of Wesley Studies, Southern Methodist University)
William J. Abraham explores the concept of God as agent by attending to various problems in Christian doctrine including the relation of freedom and grace, divine action in liberation theology…
The theology of Karl Barth has been a productive dialogue partner for evangelical theology. For too long, however, the dialogue has been dominated by questions of orthodoxy. The present volume…
William J Potter
The National Tragedy - four sermons delivered before the First Congregational Society, New Bedford, on the life and death of Abraham Lincoln is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original…
William J Abraham (Albert Cook Outler Professor of Wesley Studies and Altshuler Distinguished Teaching Professor in Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University in Dallas Texas)
For centuries the Bible has been the backbone of Christianity and of Christian theology. Yet it has also been the subject of fierce controversy. Truth be told, theorizing about it…
Analytic Theology was an accident waiting to happen. For most of the twentieth century Anglo-American analytic philosophy was systematically hostile to theology. With the revival of philosophy of religion (at…
William J. Abraham (Albert Cook Outler Professor of Wesley Studies, Albert Cook Outler Professor of Wesley Studies, Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University)
Volume III of a tetralogy devoted to Divine Agency and Divine Action articulates a comprehensive vision of systematic theology focused on divine action from creation to eschatology.
